Cholinergic agents
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A central tenet of Alzheimer disease (AD) is the loss of cortical cholinergic function and cholinergic markers in postmortem brain specimens. Whether these profound deficits in cholinergic markers found in end-stage patients are also... more
The cellular mechanisms by which neuronal nicotinic cholinergic receptors influence many aspects of physiology and pathology in the neocortex remain primarily unknown. Whole-cell recordings and single-cell reverse transcription (RT)-PCR... more
Cortical cholinergic inputs are hypothesized to mediate atten- tional functions. The present experiment was designed to de- termine the single unit activity of neurons within the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) of rats performing a... more
Inflammatory markers are increased systematically and locally (e.g., skeletal muscle) in stroke patients. Besides being associated with cardiovascular risk factors, proinflammatory cytokines seem to play a key role in muscle atrophy by... more
Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common form of dementia among the elderly, is a progressive, degenerative disorder of the brain with a loss of memory and cognition. A defining characteristic of AD is the deposition of amyloid fibrils... more
Co-occurrence of tobacco smoking and alcohol consumption during adolescence is frequent and well documented. However, little is known about the basic neurobiology of the combined exposure in the adolescent brain. Since nicotine is a... more
Traumatic brain injury (TBI), often caused by a concussive impact to the head, affects an estimated 1.7 million Americans annually. With no approved drugs, its pharmacological treatment represents a significant and currently unmet medical... more
Rationale In schizophrenia, attentional disturbance is a core feature which may not only accompany the disorder, but may precede the onset of psychiatric symptoms. Objectives The five-choice serial reaction time task (5CSRTT) is a test of... more
Until recently our understanding of the functional neuroanatomy of the cholinergic basal forebrain (CBF) has been hindered by the lack of a lesioning technique that is truly selective. The development of the immunotoxin 192 IgG-saporin... more
The purpose of our work was to investigate how the cholinergic environment influences the targeting and the intracellular trafficking of the muscarinic receptor m2 (m2R) in vivo. To address this question, we have used immunohistochemical... more
Methyllycaconitine (MLA), α -conotoxin IMI, and α -bungarotoxin inhibited the release of catecholamines triggered by brief pulses of acetylcholine (ACh) (100 μ M, 5 s) applied to fast-superfused bovine adrenal chromaffin cells, with IC50s... more